Event Archives: 2013

Please note that this event will be held in Sacramento.

The conventional wisdom is that change in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta will come slowly, or not at all. There are too many competing interests and too many legal battles. But over the last year, a group of stakeholders in the Delta — representing a wide range of interests including agriculture, fisheries, environmental NGOs, local government, water agencies, levees, state and federal agencies — engaged in a novel process, the Delta Dialogues, in an attempt to come together.

Many wonder if Afghanistan can succeed as a stable, self-sustaining country when NATO completes its combat mission at the end of 2014. Afghanistan continues to rely on massive amounts of foreign aid, and its fledgling security forces are now taking the reins of a tough military campaign against well-entrenched insurgents.

After Barack Obama put his hand on the Lincoln Bible and took the oath of office this week almost exactly 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect, it’s appropriate to ask: Where is America now, a century and a half after Lincoln signed that celebrated document? Have we progressed as much as we like to think? What disparities in health, wealth, education and incarceration do people of color still face? What might Obama accomplish in his second term to narrow these disparities?

**Please note that this event will be held at the Russell Senate Building.**

Please join the New America Foundation, the National Community Tax Coalition, and other partners for a briefing about the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) just before National EITC Awareness Day.